Now it’s time to apply for Svalbard Strategic Grant (SSG 2026)
This is a seed money program aimed at advancing coordination, collaboration and data sharing between researchers with a relevance to Svalbard. The program is financed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and administered by the Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) secretariat in Longyearbyen.
Funding is available for collaboration and network activities:
- cooperation/network projects
- workshops
- initiating pre-projects
Priority in this call will be given to activities that contribute to the following:
- establishing new scientific cooperation and/or monitoring initiatives in Svalbard to fill current knowledge gaps;
- increased mobility and cooperation between research localities in Svalbard (Longyearbyen, Ny-Ålesund, Hornsund, Bjørnøya, Hopen and Jan Mayen);
- increased mobility and cooperation between research localities in Svalbard and Greenland;
- placing Svalbard research in a pan-Arctic and global perspective;
- developing the Ny-Ålesund flagship programmes and other existing scientific networks in Svalbard;
- data management compliant with SIOS data policy and FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management;
- developing sustainable cooperation under the auspices of SIOS;
- SIOS offers tailored help and training in data management to support funded projects in navigating the hurdles of data management and making the output of Earth System Science projects visible through the SIOS data access portal.
Funding scale: NOK 50 000 – 500 000
Relevant thematic areas for this call: Climate and the environment
Project duration: 12-24 months
Application deadline: 11 March 2026, 13:00 CET
The English call text is the legally binding version and can be found here.